http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/category/systemcenteroperationsmanager Hello Operations Manager Community, I am pleased to announce the new AVIcode forum on TechNet for our Operations Manager customers, staffed by our team and our...

Quick heads up! The Supported Configurations Statement for OM2007R2 has been updated to support SQL Server 2008 SP2 .  We now support the following roles on SQL Server SP2: Operations Manager database Data Warehouse database Audit Collections database...

  I noticed on the forums someone was having trouble using this with the R2 release.  Here is an updated version of the momclean tool to use for uninstalling OM2007R2 when traditional methods have failed.  Note: None of the command line...

If you have run into issues during setup where you know that you have a supported version of SQL running on your machine but setup in unable to detect it, you may have hit a SQL WMI provider issue. In OpsMgr 2007 R2, this shows up as the SQL Server requirement...

In Operations Manager R2 CU3 we added a new feature that expands our capabilities in monitoring web applications via synthetic transactions. Parameter extraction allows us to extract data from the HTTP responses to web requests and store the value in the test context as name value pairs which can then be reused in subsequent requests within the test context. The document attached describes how this feature can be used....

Microsoft customers can now easily monitor new high-impact support issues and get links to the best Microsoft KB articles, blogs, TechNet and MSDN articles to resolve them by subscribing to the Microsoft Support Top Solutions RSS feed for System Center...

Today, Microsoft announced its acquisition of AVIcode, Inc.  Read the official blog here . We hope that the rest of the Operations Manager community is as excited as we are about the enhanced capabilities that the AVIcode technologies bring to Systems...

It's not uncommon to want to monitor a perfmon counter like Logical Disk\% Free Space where there are multiple instances and you only want to be alerted if one instance goes below the threshold. Authors will typically try to do this through the UI building...

I am pleased to announce support of SQL 2008 R2 with System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 databases.  Support is divide into two phase so please read KB2425714 for details. Phase 1: Clean install of OM2007R2 on SQL 2008 R2.  Take a look...

I’m very glad to announce that the 3 rd quarterly update for the System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 management pack is now available. You can download the MP from the Pinpoint catalog and it will be available shortly in the R2 web service...

Our friends over on the System Center Service Manager team have spent a tremendous amount of time designing and building their management pack and now I'm very happy to say, it's released ! Darko Vukovic is a Program Manager on the SM team and he's posted...

Updated attachment to fix deployment for Forecast MP. This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. Use of included utilities are subject to the terms specified at http://www.microsoft.com/info/cpyright.htm . Daniel...

At MMS last week I presented a session looking at various reporting scenarios based on the feedback we have received since we launched R2 last year. The purpose of the session was to try and address the common problems and show the options available...

I am pleased to announced that the collaboration of the Visio and Operations Manager teams has shipped two deliverables for the Office 2010 wave immediately following last Friday’s Office 2010 RTM. This release consists of two downloads: 1. Visio...

I wanted to post a quick note to let everyone know that the Windows Server OS MP has been updated and is available for download here . This is a small update in which we did two things. The first, and most important, is that we updated the script used...

Some of you reading this post might think that Operations Manager 2007 is great, but not quite perfect, so you might want to provide some feedback. The Operational Data Reporting Management Pack is an easy and automated way to provide feedback regarding...

Check out the Operations Manager 2007 R2 Sizing Helper . The Operations Manager 2007 R2 Sizing Helper is an interactive Excel document designed to assist you with planning & sizing deployments of Operations Manager 2007 R2. It helps you plan the...

By default, the Microsoft Exchange 2007 Management Packs for Operations Manager 2007 will not automatically start monitoring of any Exchange 2007 Servers even if you have imported the Management Pack. This means that the servers won’t automatically show...

The System Center Operations Manager team has released its second quarterly update of the OpsMgr 2007 R2 MP to the catalog. You can download the MP from this page . This package (Version 6.1.7599.0) is specific to OpsMgr 2007 R2 and will not import on...

System Center Capacity Planner Has Been Discontinued Microsoft System Center Capacity Planner (SCCP) is formally being discontinued, effective immediately, as it no longer supports the current versions of Microsoft applications it was designed for...

The Operations Manager product group is looking for feedback on how you author custom Management Packs for System Center Operations Manager 2007, as well as areas where we can improve. Please take this survey to help guide future authoring investments...

Do you use the Windows Server Print Server role in your environment? Are you using the either of the print server management packs for OpsMgr 2007? Do you use the print management console? If you answered yes to any of these questions then we would greatly...

I am a big Powershell fan, and I use the Powershell console regularly. Depending on what I’m taking care of at the time, I might be using the plain vanilla console or I might be using the Operations Manager snapin to work with the latest builds of our...

Overview: In Operations Manager, the Gateway server role is primary used for monitoring servers outside the Root Management Servers trusted Domain boundary. Another popular use of the Gateway role is for performance improvements by placing gateways in...

Folks - get your RSS feeds ready and subscribe to Michael's blog. If you have ever needed support from the product group on perf and scale, you have most likley come in contact with Michael. I am really excited to announce his new blog. Check it out!...